Spring snap-hook.



PATENTED DEG. 5, 1905.

J. GREENWALD.

SPRING SNAP HOOK. APPLIGATIQN FILED JUNE 23, 190 5.

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JONAS GREENWALD, OFNEW YORK, N. Y.-

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

Application filed June 23.1905- $erial No. 266,566-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONAS GREENWALD, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn,

in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new andImproved Spring Snap-Hook, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

- The inventionrelates to garment-supporters; and its object is toprovide a new and im proved snap-hook more especially designed rangedfor use on suspenders or directly .on the trousers. j I

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinationsofthe same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and thenpointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theViews. Figure l is a face View of the blank for forming the springsnap-hook. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the improvement; and Fig.

.3 is a transverse sectionof the same as applied, the section being onthe line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The spring snap-hook is formed from a single piece of resilientmaterial, such as sheetsteel, and the blank for forming the-snapbook, asshown in Fig. 1, consists, essentially, of a body. A, from which extendintegrally in opposite directions members B and B, preferably somewhatnarrower than the body portion A. The body portion A is provided with anopening A, the top and bottom edgesof which are formed with teeth orprongs A and A adapted to engage the textile material forming thesupport C for the spring snaphook. I

' The blank is doubled up at the body portion A, as illustrated in Figs.2 and 3, so as to bring the teeth or prongs A and A at differentlevels,'(see Figs. 2 and 3,) the textile material C extending betweenthe doubled-up portions at the opening A so that the portions of thedoubled-up body A below the teeth or prongs A A lie fiat 'on oppositefaces of the textilemateriahas will be readily I understood by referenceto Fig. 3, and theteeth or prongs engage the material from oppositesides to securely fasten the spring snaphook to the textile support. Thelatter is of a width corresponding to the width of the I vopening'A, asindicatedin Fig. 2, to allow of conveniently placing the textilematerial between the doubled-up b'ody portion A and to hold thesnap-hook in proper alinement with the textile material, as thedoubled-up ends abut against the sides of the material.

The integral member B is doubled up along the line b 6 (see Fig. 1) toform a hook B and the member B forms a spring-tongue for normallyclosing the said hook. For the purpose mentioned the free end B 'of thespringtongue B abuts'against the inner face of the free end of the hookB to produce a spring snap-hook which can be opened by pressing thespring-tongue B inwardly to. permit the convenientintroduction orremoval of the article to be suspended by the snap-hook,

' It is understood that the article to be suspended-for instance,drawers-are provided with loops readilypassed between the members Band'B, so as to securely hold .or support the article, theloop beingpassed between the members by pressing the spring-tongue B inwardly toallow the loop to pass down between the free ends of the member B andthe hook B into the snap-hook. In a like manner when it is desired todisengage the loop from the snap-hook the member B is pressed inwardlyto open the hook and. to allow of pulling the loop out from between themembers.

It is understood that the spring member B immediately closes the hook Bas soon as relieved of pressure, owing to the resiliency of thespring-tongue", so that the hook is always normally closed. I

When the blank is doubled up, the members B B stand parallel one to theother and are spaced sufiiciently far apart to accommodate the looporother device tobe engaged and supportedbythe springsnap-hook.Themembers B B are preferably provided with cutout portions B B toreduce-the weight of the spring snap-hook to a minimum without impairingits strength.

I The spring snap-hook shown and described is very simple and durable inconstruction,

can be cheaply manufactured, and readily applied and used for variouspurposes.

' Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- I 1. A spring snap-hook made of a single pieceof resilient material doubled up, one member of the doubled-up portionterminating in a hook and the other member terminating in a a tongueacting in conjunction with the free end of the hook to normally closethe same, the doubledup portion having an opening for passing thetextile material between the doubled-up portion, the latter also havingintegral fastening means for securing the doubledup portion to thetextile support.

2. A spring snap-hook made of asingle piece of resilient material havinga body portion doubled up and formed with an aperture for the passage ofthe textile support, the bottom edges of the aperture havinginwardly-extending teeth for engaging the support, one

